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| + | ====== Mastodon Blog ====== | ||
| + | I wanted to add a blog to a new website (this website already has a Mastodon account) and after a few minutes of searching for options I realised "Wait, why don't I just use Mastodon?" | ||
| + | |||
| + | Turns out it only took a handful of lines of code: | ||
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| + | <code php> | ||
| + | |||
| + | $url = "https://glasgow.social/@neil.rss"; | ||
| + | $data = file_get_contents($filename); | ||
| + | $posts = new SimpleXmlElement($data); | ||
| + | |||
| + | echo "<ul>"; | ||
| + | foreach($posts->channel->item as $p) { | ||
| + | echo "<li><strong><a target='new' href='{$p->link}'>{$p->title}</a></strong><br />"; | ||
| + | echo $p->description; | ||
| + | echo "</li>"; | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | echo "</ul>"; | ||
| + | |||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | |||
| + | Done. I can just insert that in any part of a website to show all the comments made by my mastodon account. | ||
| + | |||
| + | If I want to show only certain comments (e.g. those with a #blog hashtag) I can add some extra code inside the foreach (this is a little convulted as I wanted to ignore case) | ||
| + | |||
| + | <code php> | ||
| + | $allowed_post = false; | ||
| + | foreach($p->category as $hash_tag) { | ||
| + | if(strtolower($hash_tag) == "blog") | ||
| + | $allowed_post = true; | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | if(!$allowed_post) | ||
| + | continue; | ||
| + | |||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | |||
| + | I'll add some caching to prevent hitting the Mastodon server's RSS file too often. | ||
| + | |||
| + | <code php mastodon_blog.php> | ||
| + | |||
| + | $url = "https://glasgow.social/@neil.rss"; | ||
| + | $basename = basename($url); | ||
| + | $cache_file = "cache/$basename"; | ||
| + | if(!file_exists($cache_file)) { | ||
| + | $data = file_get_contents($url); | ||
| + | file_put_contents($cache_file, $data); | ||
| + | } else { | ||
| + | $cache_ts = filemtime($cache_file); | ||
| + | if($cache_ts >= strtotime("-5 minutes")) { | ||
| + | $data = file_get_contents($cache_file); | ||
| + | } else { | ||
| + | $data = file_get_contents($url); | ||
| + | file_put_contents($cache_file, $data); | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | |||
| + | $posts = new SimpleXmlElement($data); | ||
| + | |||
| + | echo "<ul>"; | ||
| + | foreach($posts->channel->item as $p) { | ||
| + | |||
| + | $allowed_post = false; | ||
| + | foreach($p->category as $hash_tag) { | ||
| + | if(strtolower($hash_tag) == "glasgow") | ||
| + | $allowed_post = true; | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | if(!$allowed_post) | ||
| + | continue; | ||
| + | |||
| + | echo "<li><strong><a target='new' href='{$p->link}'>{$p->title}</a></strong><br />"; | ||
| + | echo $p->description; | ||
| + | echo "</li>"; | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | echo "</ul>"; | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | </code> | ||
mastodon_blog.txt ยท Last modified: 2022/07/26 16:04 by admin
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